Welcome to Country -PC用

1. Most people don’t know there are over 500 Indigenous tribes (and therefore tribal geo boundaries) and language groups that exist across Indigenous Australia? The Indigenous Australia map that can be found at is just one representation of other map sources that are available for describing Aboriginal Australia.

2. “A Welcome to Country is where an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander custodian or elder from the local area or region welcomes people to their land.

3. WSM is a proud Australian 100% Indigenous cross-media production company located in Roebourne, a small town with a population of less than 900 people, in Western Australia’s majestic Pilbara region.

4. It gives the user a solid appreciation of the many cultures and languages groups that exist in Indigenous Australia.

5. uses the GPS function of the iPhone to deliver a Welcome to Country video (or text/image version) to the user via a push notification.

6. This map in particular indicates only the general location of larger groupings of people and this may include smaller groups such as clans, dialects or individual languages in a group.

7. contains more than 30 tribes and languages groups (of over 500 groups!) right across Indigenous Australia.

8. This may be done through speech, song, dance or ceremony and has been part of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander protocol for thousands of years.

9. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that this app may contain images and voices of people who have died.

10. If you’re a traditional owner or a member of an Australian Indigenous language group and you’d like your mob included on the app.

11. is part of WSM’s ‘Digital Dreamtime Project’ and is proudly supported by the Australian Government and Woodside Energy / Pluto LNG (operated by Woodside in Joint Venture with Tokyo Gas and Kansai Electric).